Memorial

I just love Washington's storytelling. I don't think I would have described Memorial as a “funny, sexy dramedy” like the book description does. It's not comic nor particularly titillating, nor do I think it's really trying to be either of those; it's a quiet story of two people who have been intertwined for a long time and are not sure why they remain that way, and who both need things that have been hard to verbalize — particularly due to the complicated relations that both Mike and Ben feel to their families. There's no neat ending, but that's okay because little about their relationship is neat, and it provides hope that one day, with or without each other, each of these men could be happy. A lovely book.